On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:20:20PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Kieu Minh Thang wrote: >> >> I have install dtmfdial, but it seems my Debian doesn't have driver for >> modem. But I see that dtmfdial is very simple program, just a binary file, >> no config file. How does this know what device used to dial, where can I >> config modem device for it ? >> > you might want to check out wvdial, I've used it before with good results.
Minicom is useful to manually control a modem, also cu and probably others, by typing commands to the modem. The serial interface, or "driver", to the modem is well built into the Linux system An automated "phone dialer" probably exists as a package or project; I'd try googling for those terms, use 'apt-cache search ...', look on sourceforge and other software development sites. I wrote a simple and not very flexible "phone dialer" as an exercise to learn Perl/Tk one time, using the perl Expect module to handle the interactive nature of the problem, and cu as the backend to talk to the modem. It presents a few buttons in a window to connect to a phone voice message system, listen and delete messages, and disconnect, and optionally puts up a keypad. I suspect you might be looking for something like this, and you're welcome to it, but there are also likely more fully featured and configurable gizmos out there. You described what you wanted by saying it was "like" some other program; without being familiar with that program, it's hard to know what you want. (Hmm, reminds me of the Microsoft approach to "office" software standards...) Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
